Travel

After 7 years researching my family’s history I finally reached a point where I thought I knew enough to actually visit some of the towns my ancestors came from. The links below are based on excerpts from my journal and

After 7 years researching my family’s history I finally reached a point where I thought I knew enough to actually visit some of the towns my ancestors came from. The links below are based on excerpts from my journal and

Thoughts and pictures from our 2005 trip to Wisconsin and North Dakota to retrace my family’s Northern Roots. My mother’s side of the family had a one day family reunion in Southern Wisconsin in July, 2005. It was a great

My infatuation with Norway probably started with my grandmother. She was the only grandparent I ever knew: she always seemed very old to me (and with good reason: she was 69 years old when I was born). But she was